Dear family & friends,
Carol and I are back in California, I'm back at work and Carol is looking for a job teaching. We've seen our family here and prayed for our 'family' back in Lassin.
Jessica is working at Indian Creek Camp in TN, and doing well.

The couple that took the Lassin project is Elebert and Merlissa of Canada. They joined us for a month, stayed another month and a half, then had to return temporarily to Canada for visa issues (they both immigrated to Canada). So, after their return trip to Canada, they sent us this note to post for you.

Thank you for keeping this project in your prayers.
Steve & Carol Rose


From: Elebert and Merlissa
June 19, 2011

After hearing so many testimonies from David Gates about how wonderful
God is and how he comes through for his children in the crunch. We
have now experienced it ourselves. As we were getting ready to leave
Cameroon, things just simple weren't coming together. First my friend
who sent us transport money to reach Douala forgot the correct
spelling of my name, and we had to hustle to get that sorted out. And
if that was not enough, the money we had to get to pay the teachers
just couldn't get cleared. because of a wrong code. Thank God
everything worked out by Friday morning. Our flight was Sunday the
12th @ mid-day.

As if all these troubles weren't enough, a small quantity of deet
squeezed out into the bag which had our passports. And in our haste to
correct the situation we cleared everything except ... the passports
and dumped the bag in water. Half an hour later I was impressed to
look at my passport and that is when we discovered they were all in
water. Merlisa's passport got the heavier damage her photo was
somewhat distorted. Then began the job of air drying the
passports.Needs lots of patience.

Sunday morning, Charles car was having troubles and We were thinking
now we are going to miss our flight but God always answers when we
call. So by 10:30 the car was ready and off we went to the airport.
You guessed it more trouble. First one of our bags was checked in
under some-one elses name on a different flight, it was good we caught
it before they check all our bags under the wrong name and we had to
wait a while for them to retrieve the bag.

Then as we were paying the exit stamp we found that we had to pay the
10 000 CFA for Estellah too. So we used up the dollars we had for
transport from the Buffalo Airport. Now we were out of Cameroon but
were sure going to be stranded in Buffalo. The money we needed for the
grey hound to get to Toronto would be sitting somewhere at moneygram
and we couldn't get to it.

In Washington, one of our bags was missing and it wasn't the one that
had been checked wrong. Could things get worse or would it turn out to
be a blessing? When we arrived in Buffalo, all our bags were missing.
We filed our claim with the airline and started walking out of the
airport. Halfway through the parking lot, we stopped and prayed " Our
Father in Heaven, send some-one to show us kindness in Jesus name
Amen" Isaiah 65:24 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call,
I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

As we ventured out of the parking lot the first person we asked
directions was not that helpful and so we walked up to the garage
that's by the airport. And we were told the place was a mile away.
After walking a while we did not see any sign of the place so we
headed back to the garage just to make sure. God allowed that so we
could connect with his answer to our prayer. It was not nice having to
walk back the way that we had just been through without thinking , if
only we had continued we'd almost be there by now ...

After we rounded the corner, about a five minute walk. There was a
lady there waiting in her car, and she asked us where we were going
and said "hop on, i know where that is". It turned out that was not
the location of moneygram. And she knew where there was one and took
us there. And not only that she fed us, bought Estellah a toy and took
us to the grey hound station, where we bought the last two seats for
the bus that was ready to leave.

God knows how to take care of his children, and his helpers are not
limited to Adventists. I ask that we all pray for this precious lady
who answered the call when God said to her "show my servants some
kindness" Her name is Dia

And Oh, we got the bags the following night.(that long walk would have
been extra terrible with the bags)

Food for thought:Scripture is sweeter when its practical